Reactions of Fischer Carbene Complexes with Siloxydienes: Formation of Cycloheptadiene and Cyclopentene Derivatives—Formal [2+1] Cycloaddition Followed by Cope Rearrangement Versus Formal [3+2] Cycloaddition with or without Preceding Carbene-Ligand Metathesis
作者:Matthias Hoffmann、Matthias Buchert、Hans-Ulrich Reißig
DOI:10.1002/(sici)1521-3765(19990301)5:3<876::aid-chem876>3.0.co;2-t
日期:1999.3.1
Thermal reactions of the alpha,beta-unsaturated Fischer carbene complexes 3-5 with the siloxydienes 6 and 7 mainly furnished the expected cyclohepta-1,4-dienes such as 9, 10, 12, 14, and 15, whose formation is explained by a formal [2+1] cycloaddition followed by Cope rearrangement. The rather electron-rich carbene complex 5 also afforded the cyclopentene derivatives II and 16 as by-products, which are probably formed by two distinct mechanisms. Single diastereomers of the cyclopentene derivatives 17 and 18 were isolated as the exclusive products of the reactions of 3 and 4, respectively, with the donor/acceptor-substituted 1,3-diene 8. This process is interpreted as a metalla Diels-Alder reaction to form a chromacyclohexene intermediate 25, which subsequently undergoes fragmentation to give cyclopentene derivatives with the required constitution. Most surprisingly, the reactions of simple carbene complexes 1 or 2 with the siloxydienes 7 or 8 yielded cyclopentene derivatives 19 and 20 that do not contain the carbene ligand of the precursor complexes. Instead, the constitution of the isolated products can be accounted for by a formal diene dimerization with fragmentation of a methylene unit. Their formation can be interpreted by an unprecedented sequence of carbene-ligand metathesis followed by a metalla Diels-Alder reaction and reductive fragmentation. All these results illustrate the great importance of electronic fine-tuning in the precursors involved in reactions of Fischer carbene complexes with 1,S-dienes.